EXTRAMISSION - Tecno-Libro

We are no longer living in a time when doctrinal texts must be composed under a cover of irony or derision. for irony and derision (or alternatively abject orthodoxy) so thoroughly covers our context that there is little irony left to cover the frank utterance of an utterer's truths. Things thus might do well to be stated as they are actually configured. What one must call the Hermetic Tradition has always embodied the spirit of syncresis not merely synthesis: it must sport an openness to doctrinal contraries. The active/actual imagination of the initiate was known as the very condition of initiation. The need for both of these disiderata -syncresis and imagination has never been more solemnly exigent than now. Another peculiarity of the moment is that the need to disguise an interest in and use of entheogens under the cloak of New Age practices with whatever pragmatic or otherwise unexceptional raison d'etre has quite dissolved. The creative underwork of non-"